Should the Dodgers be outbid for each of their free agents (other than Clayton Kershaw), fail to sign a substantive MLB free agent from the 2025 class, and stand pat in the trade market, they will still be the overwhelming favorite to repeat as World Series Champions. But the team will not stand pat and […]
(Read More)Untouchable Prospects
Over many decades, there were certain players coming through the Dodgers development pipeline who were considered ‘untouchable’ – those prospects that the team would not even consider trading because of their high potential to become MLB stars; names like Tommy Davis, Steve Garvey, Don Sutton, Fernando Valenzuela, Mike Piazza, Adrian Beltre, Clayton Kershaw, Corey Seager, Julio […]
Another Baseball Off-Season Smile
If you are like me, and let’s face it, you probably wouldn’t be reading this if you were not, you are undoubtedly going through some serious MLB off-season withdrawals and craving any baseball news. And while there is very little of such at this time of year, there is some … if you follow MLB […]
Dodgers Trade Capital
The Dodgers have the economic clout to pursue and sign any free agent currently on the open market. Twenty-three-year-old right-handed Nippon Baseball pitching phenom Roki Sasaki is reportedly on their radar, as is 32-year-old outfielder Teoscar Hernández, who they hope to re-sign. There were even rumors that megastar outfielder Juan Soto might join the World […]
More Dodgers Hardware
On Tuesday afternoon, it was announced that managers and coaches from all 30 MLB teams had selected 30-year-old Dodgers international superstar and future Hall of Famer Shohei Ohtani, 32-year-old fellow future Hall of Famer Mookie Betts, and 32-year-old extremely popular Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández to be awarded Silver Slugger Awards for the 2024 season, becoming […]
Good Things Happen When You Win The World Series
It was being reported on Monday that Dodger Stadium, MLB’s third oldest ballpark (1962) behind only Boston’s Fenway Park (1912) and Chicago’s Wrigley Field (1914), was undergoing major renovations. Although exact cost of the project has not – and likely will not – be made public by the Dodgers, USA Today‘s Bob Nightengale reported last […]
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Kershaw ‘Sort Of’ Back
November 5th, 2024 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka On Monday evening, is was being widely reported on social media that 36-year-old now free-agent future Hall of Fame left-hander Clayton Kershaw would be returning to the Dodgers for the 2025 season … sort of. Although there has been no official word from the Dallas,TX native and first-round draft pick by the Dodgers in 2006 […]
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Here’s Your Sign
November 4th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It is a sign that made every Dodgers fan smile and every English teacher cringe, and it was prominently displayed during the Dodgers World Series Championship parade in downtown Los Angeles on Friday. But did its author mean: They Aren’t Like Us or They Don’t Like Us? My guess is both, since both very much […]
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How Do You Even Explain This To People?
November 2nd, 2024 at 9:30 am by Ron Cervenka It was incredible and “unbelievable,” as a number of Dodgers players themselves described It. ‘It’ was the estimated quarter of a million people who attended the downtown parade and subsequent Dodger Stadium rally for the 2024 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday. “I’ll remember this day for the rest of my life,” a […]
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With A Little Help From His Friends
November 1st, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It is a well publicized fact that 30-year-old international superstar Shohei Ohtani did not re-sign with the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim because he wanted to play for a team that actually had a chance to make it to the World Series. Although the extremely popular Oshu, Japan native slashed a Hall-of-Fame-worthy .274/.366/.556/.922 with 171 home runs […]
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Mission Accomplished
October 31st, 2024 at 10:00 am by Ron Cervenka The Los Angeles Dodgers are the Champions of Baseball. “This is what we said we were going to do and we did it,” Betts said postgame. “Earlier in the day I said if it gets squirrely let me know and I’ll head down there (to the bullpen),” the 30-year-old Lexington, KY native and Dodgers first-round draft […]
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Walks Kill You
October 29th, 2024 at 10:15 am by Ron Cervenka It is a long proven fact that walks kill you. Not the ones you take around the block or in the park, but the base-on-ball type in baseball … unless you are the recipient of those walks, that is. In Monday’s 4-2 Los Angeles Dodgers win over the New York Yankees in Game-3 of the […]
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Dodgers Rebrand Triple-A Affiliate
October 28th, 2024 at 11:15 am by Ron Cervenka As Dodgers fans well know, Oklahoma City has had a longstanding relationship with Minor League Baseball (MiLB), having joined the Pacific Coast League in 1998 and becoming a Dodgers MiLB affiliate in 2015. On Sunday the team announced that they have changed their team name to the Oklahoma City Comets. It is the fifth team […]
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A Costly Win For Dodgers
October 27th, 2024 at 10:11 am by Ron Cervenka The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Yankees in Game-2 of the 2024 World Series at Dodger Stadium on Saturday evening to take a 2-0 lead in the best-of-seven championship series, but it came at an enormous and potentially series-changing cost. With one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, international superstar Shohei […]
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Freeman ‘Breaks’ Dodger Stadium
October 26th, 2024 at 8:00 am by Ron Cervenka It was déjà vu all over again. Anyone who saw Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman‘s historic walk-off grand slam home run against the New York Yankees in Game-1 of the 2024 World Series at Dodger Stadium on Friday night, and let’s be honest here, what true baseball fan did not, had an immediate flashback to […]
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